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1. Kudos for Kazakhstan's 'Leading Role' as UN General Assembly Campaigns for Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... of the 72nd session of the General Assembly, Miroslav Lajčák, convened a high-level plenary meeting on September 6 "to commemorate and promote" this landmark Day and the Nuclear‑Test‑Ban Treaty. Delegates ...

Created on 07 September 2018

2. Test-Ban Treaty Will Produce Tangible Benefits for Humankind

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... on September 6, 2018, CTBTO Executive Secretary Dr Lassina Zerbo exhorted "all countries – small and large – that have not yet signed or ratified" the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) "to do ...

Created on 06 September 2018

3. Uncertainty About Whether the U.S. and Russia Can Avert a New Arms Race

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... excessive nuclear stockpiles by one-third below the limits set by the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). Since Russia's 2014 invasion of Ukraine, U.S.-Russian relations have deteriorated ...

Created on 02 September 2018

4. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... spare no effort to ensure that the nuclear test ban becomes legally binding by achieving the entry into force" of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in limbo for 22 years. [P 09] JAPANESE ...

Created on 30 August 2018

5. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

(Project Articles)

... spare no effort to ensure that the nuclear test ban becomes legally binding by achieving the entry into force" of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in limbo for 22 years. [P 09] JAPANESE ...

Created on 30 August 2018

6. California Leads the Way in Support of Nuclear Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... to embrace the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, make nuclear disarmament the centerpiece of national security policy, and spearhead a global effort to prevent nuclear war. Santa Barbara's ...

Created on 30 August 2018

7. U.S. Goes for 'Space Force All the Way'

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... that the world needs a treaty to prevent stationing such weapons in outer space in order to maintain global “strategic stability” among the major powers and enable nuclear disarmament. Although the Outer ...

Created on 21 August 2018

8. Little Progress in Nuclear Disarmament Since Helsinki Summit

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... to get the new treaty with Russia approved in the Senate. (It’s called New START.) In Helsinki, Putin suggested that they extend the life of New START, due to expire in 2021, since it only requires both ...

Created on 21 August 2018

9. 73 Years On, a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World Remains a Mirage

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... a new dawn" – and aver that the adoption of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in July 2017 is such a 'threshold'. In a joint appeal 'To the Youth of the World', released to the media ...

Created on 20 August 2018

10. 73 Years On, a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World Remains a Mirage

(Project Articles)

... a new dawn" – and aver that the adoption of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in July 2017 is such a 'threshold'. In a joint appeal 'To the Youth of the World', released to the media ...

Created on 20 August 2018

11. No More Hiroshimas, No More Nagasakis, No More Hibakusha

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... by adopting the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons last year. Let us also recognize the persistent peril of other deadly weapons. Chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction, and those ...

Created on 09 August 2018

12. Trump and Putin Can Put the Brakes on a New, Potentially More Dangerous, Arms Race

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty and Putin has boasted of new, Strangelovian weapons, including nuclear-armed hypersonic glide vehicles, globe-circling nuclear-powered cruise missiles ...

Created on 07 August 2018

13. Rising Nuclear Tensions Call For Elimination Of Atomic Weapons

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... arsenals are being modernized and, in some cases, expanded.  The adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons last year demonstrated the international support that exists for a permanent ...

Created on 06 August 2018

14. A U.S.-Russia Summit That Left Trump In The Hot Seat

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Treaty in 1963, and the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty in 1972; the Apollo-Soyuz project in space where the cold-war rivals met in orbit in 1975; the first joint U.S.-Russian space shuttle mission in ...

Created on 21 July 2018

15. Nuclear Disarmament Is Crucial For Global Security – It Shouldn't Have To Wait

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... control and disarmament. And back in 1986, the Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Reykjavik resulted in one of the greatest disarmament achievements of the last century: the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty ...

Created on 15 July 2018

16. The Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty One Year On

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... This article has been published on the website of Australian Institute of International Affairs and in Pearls and Irritations on 12 July 2018.  SYDNEY (IDN-INPS) – The Treaty on the Prohibition ...

Created on 13 July 2018

17. Trump-Putin Summit A New Opportunity To Ban The Bomb

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, to take place after the July 11-12 NATO summit, the new Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons celebrated its first birthday on July 7 when 122 nations voted a year ago ...

Created on 08 July 2018

18. Diplomacy With North Korea Crucial To Denuclearization

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... by North and South Korea. Next, the United States will want North Korea to solidify its voluntary nuclear test moratorium by signing the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and expand on its missile testing ...

Created on 04 July 2018

19. NPT Proves To Be An Exercise In Bad Faith As It Turns 50

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) turned 50. In that agreement, five nuclear weapons states – the U.S., Russia, UK, France, and China – pledged to make "good faith efforts" to give up their ...

Created on 03 July 2018

20. Experts Accentuate the Significance of Trump-Putin Summit

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), which will expire in 2021 unless extended by mutual agreement, and the compliance dispute over the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. In an interview ...

Created on 30 June 2018